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To: Brookhaven

Impersonate a law enforcement officer, doctor, or judge and see what the charge is.


14 posted on 02/08/2010 8:58:26 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning" Obama 2/4/2010)
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To: a fool in paradise

Impersonate a law enforcement officer, doctor, or judge and see what the charge is.


Because impersonating one of those professions causes chaos in society. These are postions of authority and deal with life/death situations.

You could make the same case that IMPERSONATING an ACTIVE soldier also causes chaos in society, so I would favor outlawing that. But impersonating an active soldier is different that lying about the medals you received (or if you were ever in the military).

It isn’t that I favor of people lying about their military experience, I just worry about outlawing speech (even bad speech). Where will it go? Now that the precedent is set, who decides where it will go?


33 posted on 02/08/2010 9:08:03 AM PST by Brookhaven
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